Hong Kong in Chinese

香港

Xiāng gǎng

City in China

The city of Hong Kong (China) is written in Chinese as 香港. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xiāng gǎng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

香Xiāng
港gǎng

香港 is written with 2 characters: 香 (Xiāng), 港 (gǎng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Hong Kong.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference